Huntsman's House, Lower Road, ASTAGOB (CA. BY.) CLONSILLA ED, DUBLIN

Description

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey lean-to flush end bay (east).  ROOF: Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having rendered red brick chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber rafters with cast-iron downpipes; lean-to slate roof (end bay) with cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves.  WALLS: Rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth.  OPENINGS: Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door.  Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars.  Square-headed window opening (end bay) with sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-two timber sash window behind wrought iron bars.  SITE: Set back from line of road on a slightly elevated site with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.  GENERAL: Marked on A Map of Part of the Lands of Astagob in the County of Dublin part of the Estate of the Rt. Revd. the Dean & Chapter of Christ Church let to Thos. Kennan Esqr. by John Longfield (c.1775-1833) [NLI MS 21 F.51/(036)].  Later occupied by John Raby who was the huntsman employed by Sir George Frederick Brooke (1849-1926) of nearby Summerton (Norton 1991, 180).